The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-08-03
Every Morning Except Sundays.
SUBSCRIPTIONS
MRS. M'GiNTYS CREST.

Two Ears Argent on Sable ShieId-One
Down Town, the Other Up Town.
Two years ago Margaret McGinty, matron,
washed her children and entered society.
McCIinty, pere continued to watch the till in
his two palatial barrOoms and, scorning so
Ciety, sought only such honors as lie in Amer
lean politics and the profits, such as evading
the license law and distributing patronage,
that lie in "indooeuce." Mrs. McGinty, how
ever, went to Europe, put Maggie ard Mary
in ''pinsionH at Paris, and did Switzerland
and the bogs of her ancestors with unabating
enthusiasm and industrious tnlpartiality. She
came back recently, the young ladies having
been polished tel they shone, and settled down
in her new mansion, near the big cathedral
The first stumbling block that afflicted her in
her conquest of New York was note paper,
and for note paper she started last week
In looking over Iiffanys sample book she
struck beautiful green crest, with birds and
things. It delighted her.
S'IlI take that wan" she said, with indIr-
ferent majesty. From her manner she aP-
peared to have bought thousands Of crests in
her time
but a--really, madam" said the clerk,
''that is Mrs. Van Spamkerboom's It's her
own, you know"
AN fare did she git it," said the lady,
Indignantly. It appeared that it might have
been stolen from her.
s'She a-they look them up in books, you
know. Everybody has a crest, you know
somewhere"
CAV coorse 1 know" said Mrs, McGinty.
cOntenptuously But all the same, as she
sailed out Of the doorway like an Irish
galleon treighted with gold and precious
stones. she was angry and mortified. Every
body had one. Where was hersf By luck
she went into Brentanos, and in Brentano's
she found it.
On the showcase was an artistic design for
framing, consisting of a shield with bars,
arabesdues, a helmet, a coronet and four
geological nightmares with red tongues. Mrs
McGinty gazed at 1t hungrily. She controlled
her feelings, however. 80
Whats the prOice av that thing theref
she sand, with an airy smile
''It's not for sale, madam"
HC7orra. thart shtores was fur selGn'," she
said with faint hut amiable sarcasm.
I'VE could make a copy Of it for you,
madam"
@For how muchF
TWENTY-FIVE dollars"
ATS not the money I'd nloind, but it's goin'
away We are. Faith, it's purity picter now
10 have in the frint parlor. Why don't ye
sell me that an paint anCdther wanF
1T don't know said the clerk doubtfully.
Here. wrap it up An ye nadent moind
the change she said, pushing three ten dollar
bills at him And she got it. She went back
TO TiRanvas on the wind She went straight
20 the clerk and handed it to him
There's noe crist," said she, with aristo-
cratic cas-
he bowed and unwrapped it. He was a
little puzzled, for it seemed somewhat ia
miliar.
1T is-pardon me-this is the McGinty
crest1n
CAV coorse, What would be dom wild
amy odtheri9
'.Two barsT asked he. It had two bars
arscut on shield sable.
s'Yis. Two bars" she said, annoyed war
On Fourteenth street an wan on Fifty thlrc
an Sixth avenoy. Ye eau see for yourself"
''Aud THREE lionsT'
s'No lions ut all What is it yc'ro tarkin.
Tbeln's bulidargs, Nike, Andy an Pat
THEY'RE In the wood chcd nt mo residence an
re must know" e.,
He said no more, but filled the order Will
only saving mo lification Mrs. McGIntJ
now has quite as n good a crest as anybody
but there is on old Dutch IN lilly up town thu
are strangely agitated. Envelopes long AM
loud are 1oating about the city with crcs
STRANGELY like that on the market gardener
boat Of their ancestor of tue Seventeenth cen
c,lry. and upon the altar of American bullion
Ibey are sacrificed New York Times.